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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 May 2018

      Let me get this straight. Free speech is soooo under threat that intellectuals have formed some sort of "intellectual dark web"... that consists of sold-out packed arenas, podcasts with more listeners than most TV shows and books that hit best-seller lists—and this is "daring"?pic.twitter.com/fevMlhqrKf

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 May 2018

      Maybe because I'm from the Middle East. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Maybe I have a different sensibility about "free speech under siege" looks like. "My opinions are not universally fawned over but I get to argue them to millions who buy my books & download my podcasts" is free speech THRIVING.

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 May 2018

      FWIW, I did write my own "failings of free speech in the digital age article". There is a genuine issue that distribution of attention is becoming monopolized by a few ad-financed platforms. But Trump, not college students at Oberlin, are the president. https://www.wired.com/story/free-speech-issue-tech-turmoil-new-censorship/ …pic.twitter.com/gyGdejkWPy

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 May 2018

      To me, if anything, what's striking is how these intellectuals have such an enormous, unfiltered reach that rivals mass media in the 20th century. (Back then, you had to please human gatekeepers and bend your message).

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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 May 2018

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Quentin Hardy

      Anyway, good to see a daring, secret enterprise distributing "forbidden truths" to *checks notes* many millions through wildly popular podcasts, best-seller books, arena-sized talks being written up in *checks notes* that impossible to find samizdat NYT!https://twitter.com/qhardy/status/994222488425988096 …

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      Quentin HardyVerified account @qhardy
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      Also, if you're writing about intellectuals speaking on forbidden truths, your first quote probably shouldn't be from "an MMA color commentator and comedian who hosts one of the most popular podcasts in the country."
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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 May 2018

      Jordan Peterson, who pulls in about ONE MILLION USD annually from patreon ALONE (never mind the best-selling books + talks), kinda gives it away here? For this very profitable schtick to work, it needs the cloak of martyrdom! (My Middle East background coming in handy again!) 😬pic.twitter.com/rBxDrZmsRy

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 May 2018

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Nick McLean

      The *actually* fired and *actually* silenced people deserve an article! Their own article! There have been many attempts to fire professors for their opinions lately, most for having left/progressive views and few from this faction. All deserve protection.https://twitter.com/Nocmclean/status/994227694740131840 …

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      Nick McLean @Nocmclean
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      Not all the figures profiled have huge followings. Others have been succesfully silenced/fired, which in part contributes to the appeal of these figures. I think the biggest lesson from this is that the old gatekeepers failed & these figures are serving an untapped market.
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        1. Ser Kevin of Skalitz  🦬‏ @Dark_Realist 9 May 2018
          Replying to @zeynep

          Really? I would have thought it was mostly (perceived) right-wing and conservative views that resulted in being fired or silenced.

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        2. Hassan khan‏ @hkhanirl 9 May 2018
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          Thanks Zeynep for sharing your thoughts on thismatter. If anything, the collection of people is that of an anti-SJW crowd. They have a collective "victim complex". Most of their ideas are vapid and hollow e.g. Race Realism as promoted by Sam H with Charles M. You also have Dave R

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        3. Hassan khan‏ @hkhanirl 9 May 2018
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          who regularly hosts racists, bigots and conspiracy theorists. Michael Shermer defends bigots like Stefan Moleyneux. JBP rose to prominence by lying about C16 bill regarding Trans rights.Shame that these people are considered intellectuals.

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        1. Nick McLean‏ @Nocmclean 9 May 2018
          Replying to @zeynep

          That may be so in the US, I'd say the opposite is true in Canada. There are a growing number of taboo topics, enforced by leftists, and professors have had careers sidelined/sabotaged/delayed for venturing into such topics.I know many who refuse to touch a series of topics.

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        1. Steven Marlow  🤖‏ @sd_marlow 9 May 2018
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          So the far left can't be guilty of "hate speech?" Isn't that a bias view, that there is no center with two opposing sides, but the "correct" left and those others to the right that are the bad thinkers?

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        1. Tamsin Shaw‏ @ProfessorShaw 9 May 2018
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          https://niskanencenter.org/blog/there-is-no-campus-free-speech-crisis-a-close-look-at-the-evidence/ …

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        1. Roger Ross‏ @StopS386 9 May 2018
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          They did have separate articles for Bret Weinstein/Heather Heying, Jordan Peterson etc. What exactly is your point here? Because they all unite to take a stance against post modernist ideologues, and an article is written about that, so now suddenly you're triggered?

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        1. Jules Gutierrez‏ @DJJustJules 9 May 2018
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          Pretty fair take here Zeynep. While I support some of these people (Harris, the Weinsteins) I agree it's not true that there's any speech on their part being suppressed in any net sense. An outdated understanding of what makes speech/thought "mainstream" is probs partly to blame.

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        1. Roger Ross‏ @StopS386 9 May 2018
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          "Few from this faction"?? Do you even know who Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying are? They are left leaning liberals who were fired from the university they worked for 13 years because they stood up against social justice warrior anarchists! They are featured in this article!

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        1. Faust‏ @UrEnterta1nment 9 May 2018
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          @cultofdusty

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